I read an interesting article in the Channel Register written by Timothy Pricket Morgan today. In his article - Cisco California pricing revealed, $3,000 for a blade with no innards he attempts to position UCS as a horribly overpriced system where Cisco is egregiously marking up components. A pretty strong statement from his article is listed [...]
Confusion about Cisco UCS pricing - Setting the Record Straight
June 13th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: CISCO · Cisco B Series Blades · Cisco UCS B200 · Cisco UCS B250 · Cisco Unified Computing System · Cisco Unified Computing System Managerm UCSM · Paginated · cloud computing
Cisco’s Cloud Computing Offering
April 7th, 2009 · No Comments
Right now Cloud Computing is either the biggest threat that Cisco Systems has ever faced, or the biggest opportunity that Cisco has ever been presented with. How will Cisco react?
Tags: CISCO · Cisco Unified Computing System · Cisco Unified Computing System Managerm UCSM · DC3.0 · FCOE · Technology · cloud computing · vSphere · virtualization · vmware
Cisco releases Nexus 1000V virtual switch for VMware
September 16th, 2008 · 6 Comments
This afternoon Cisco released a new member of the Nexus family of switches, the Nexus 1000V. This is the first switch to take advantage of VMware opening up their ESX and ESXi platforms to for third party network device manufacturers. This switch directly address some pretty big pain points surrounding current virtualization implementations.
The boundary between [...]
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